Costs

Dominic Regan provides a self-help guide post-Mitchell

Ian Gascoigne & Hena Ninan ask whether costs budgeting will make a difference to large commercial disputes

CoA decision should sound “death knell” for post-Mitchell tactics

Sue Nash highlights the key teething problems of costs management

Lord Justice Jackson, the main architect of recent civil litigation reforms, has responded to critics, who say the new regime has boosted costs and reduced access to justice.

Routinely inflating success fees to get the magic 25% is courting disaster, warns Jeff Zindani

In the second NLJ / LSLA litigation trends survey, James Baxter reports on how firms and practitioners are adapting to new ways of litigating post-Jackson and post-Mitchell.

The Mitchell judgment was no one-off, says Dominic Regan 

William Robins outlines the challenges involved when a case pursued under a CFA is transferred to another firm

Roger Mallalieu analyses recent case law on costs budgeting